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...expeditions to Andros Island by Colonel Wise, whose literary style is as unpretentious as his experting, were made perfect by E. M. Schuetz, resident manager in Nassau for National Fisheries Corp., a commercial sharking company, to whom prospective sharkers might well apply. Gleeful was his reply to an angler returning home on the S. S. Munargo with boasts about the big barracuda he had caught. Colonel Wise could truthfully say: "We used them for bait." His biggest catch at Andros was a Great Blue shark that measured 11 ft. 7 in., weighed 954 lb. But far bigger ones, of course...
Preacher Bradley, 48, drinks lemon juice before breakfast, walks an hour a day, spends his vacations piloting his 30-ft. cruiser on the lakes of northern Minnesota. An able angler, he became president of the Izaak Walton League of America in 1930, was made president emeritus when his four-year term expired. Fond of publicity, Preston Bradley gets it not only by preaching, reviewing books in his pulpit every Wednesday, making speeches nightly-his schedule for paid appearances extends into next March-but by such activities as serving on Illinois library, prison and school boards. Last year 10,000 Chicagoans...
...highlight of the whole exhibit is several rare editions of the "Compleat Angler", by one Izsak Walton. This 17th century writer had much to do with making fishing a sport rather than an the occupation, and as such he has become the father of a movement which in the spring of the year lures thousands to cast and dream of pairoueaint Walton...
...book's frontispiece presents Angler Heilner's sporting credentials: a picture of himself and Zane Grey taken at Long Key, Fla. in 1916. If Mr. Grey, 62, is the senior prophet of ocean game fishing in America, certainly Van Campen Heilner, 37, is its junior dean. He is at dutiful pains throughout his easy-going pages to give credit where due to the men who have made game fishing into a well-defined national sport. Examples: To oldtime Charley Thompson, credit for guiding the first party to take a sailfish on rod & reel, in 1901, after...
...nature is Angler Heilner's province. He has worked for the American Museum of Natural History; indeed it was while investigating a new finch, a rail and a wren for them that he discovered for sportsmen the tarpon of Cuba, in the Encantado (Enchanted) River. His fishing lexicon is shot richly through with biological side glances. It is interesting to know that the jutla (arboreal rat) of Cuba is that island's only native mammal, discovered by Columbus; that the weakfish which spawn in Peconic Bay do so without issue, some cause aborting all their efforts north...